POPE TO BEATIFY FIVE SERVANTS OF GOD ON APRIL 29

VATICAN CITY, APR 24, 2001 (VIS) - Sunday, April 29, Third Sunday of Easter, at 10 a.m., John Paul II will celebrate the Eucharist in St. Peter's Square and proclaim as Blesseds five Servants of God.

The future Blesseds are: Manuel Gonzalez Garcia, (1877-1940), bishop, founder of the Congregation of the Eucharistic Missionaries of Nazareth; Maria Anna Blondin, (1809-1890), virgin, foundress of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Anne; Caterina Volpicelli, (1839-1894), virgin, foundress of the Servants of the Sacred Heart; Caterina Cittadini, (1801-1857), virgin, foundress of the Ursuline Sisters of Somasca; Carlo Manuel Cecilio Rodriguez Santiago, (1918-1963), layman.

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